Content includes refinement of conducting skills, study of repertoire, score analysis, and rehearsal techniques. Literature may include Gregorian chant and Masses, motets, and madrigals from the fourteenth- through seventeenth-centuries. Students will observe and participate in rehearsals and performances of the School of Music choral ensembles (e.g. Chamber Chorus, Concert Choir) and the Boston University Symphonic Chorus. Enrollment in these ensembles for credit is discouraged, as participation is expected in order to satisfy laboratory component of Seminar